# Post ts_111092538445142372

- Post ID: `ts_111092538445142372`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-09-19T15:33:30.644Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/111083020022823050 The Election Cheaters hate to see this. MAGA!

## Reposted post

Original: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111083020022823050 (2023-09-17T23:12:50.955Z (UTC))

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- image: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/111/083/019/701/318/473/original/b7fbc39d934686ba.jpg

## Engagement

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- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.398Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T08:39:31.577Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Summary

A brief maintenance post that retruths Trump's own earlier 'MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!' declaration and appends a six-word gloss: 'The Election Cheaters hate to see this. MAGA!' The psychological function is threefold: grievance reinforcement (keeping the election fraud frame active during a legally turbulent week), narcissistic supply via imagined enemy distress (cheaters suffer at Trump's strength), and tribal identity affirmation (MAGA as closing rally cry). The post operates in grandiose-triumphalist mode rather than the wounded/persecuted mode visible in adjacent posts addressing the Letitia James fraud case. Dominant defense mechanisms are splitting (MAGA vs. cheaters, no middle ground) and projection (electoral wrongdoing attributed wholesale to opponents). The embedded epistemic closure is notable: the framing preemptively discredits any factual challenge as evidence of the challenger's complicity. No acute language production anomalies detectable at this brevity. Danger level is elevated but ambient — no direct incitement or dehumanizing language, but continuous enemy-labeling of 'cheaters' as a collective threat sustains the grievance ecosystem that has historically preceded mobilization events. Authorship assessment leans authentic (0.65) despite mid-morning local timing, based on register and idiomatic markers.

# Analysis: ts_111092538445142372 — September 19, 2023

## Overview

A retruth of Trump's own earlier post appended with: *"The Election Cheaters hate to see this. MAGA!"* This is a low-intensity maintenance post — brief, punchy, emotionally charged — consistent with Trump's established pattern of election fraud grievance cycling. It does not represent a marked deviation from baseline but warrants documentation as a node in a continuous enemy-construction narrative running across multiple consecutive posts.

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## Authorship Attribution

**Score: 0.65 (leans authentic) | Confidence: Medium**

Trump was in the New York metropolitan area on this date (the 9/18 Long Island car parade establishes his regional location during UN General Assembly week). UTC 15:33 converts to **11:33 AM EDT** — mid-morning, nominally within aide-posting hours. However, several register markers strongly suggest authentic Trump authorship:

- **Capitalized enemy label**: "Election Cheaters" — Trump's habitual practice of elevating adversaries to proper-noun status
- **Colloquial schadenfreude**: "hate to see this" is idiomatic Trump-speak, not polished communications prose
- **Truncated grammar**: No complete sentence structure; an aide would typically supply a verb clause
- **MAGA closer**: Reflexive tribal sign-off is a Trump signature, not a communications-staff convention
- **Self-retruth pattern**: Amplifying one's own content is a Trump behavioral signature, less common in aide-managed posting

Assessment: likely authentic, possibly posted after a staffer cued the retruth, with Trump adding the comment.

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## Level 1: Dispositional Traits (Big Five)

| Trait | Expression | Salience |
|-------|-----------|---------|
| Extraversion | Assertive, dominant, audience-directed | High |
| Agreeableness | Oppositional, contemptuous of named enemy | Very Low |
| Conscientiousness | Minimal deliberation evident | Low |
| Neuroticism | Angry hostility, impulsiveness | Moderate |
| Openness | Rigid framing, no nuance | Very Low |

**Dominant facet**: Assertive hostile extraversion combined with low agreeableness. The post is outwardly directed aggression channeled into audience reinforcement rather than acute personal attack.

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## Level 2: Characteristic Adaptations

**Dominant motive: Power/Agency (0.80)**

The post constructs a world in which Trump's continued presence is so threatening to corrupt power that adversaries reactively suffer. This is an *agency-through-enemy-distress* motive structure: "I am powerful because they fear me." Communion motives (belonging, connection) are subordinate — MAGA functions as tribal identity marker, but the post's emotional center is domination, not warmth.

**Schemas:**
- *Self*: Existential threat to corrupt forces; winning despite persecution
- *Others (in-group)*: Co-winners who share his awareness of the truth
- *Others (out-group)*: "Election Cheaters" — undifferentiated collective of corrupt adversaries
- *World*: Rigged system that nonetheless cannot contain him

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## Level 3: Narrative Identity

**Protagonist role**: Triumphant fighter whose existence itself defeats enemies
**Narrative sequence**: Redemption — ongoing persecution (cheaters, indictments, lawsuits) framed as temporary obstacle before inevitable restoration
**Contrasting other**: "Election Cheaters" — unnamed, faceless, collectively guilty
**Identity claim**: "I am so powerful and legitimate that fraudsters experience distress at my mere presence"

The retruth structure creates an interesting self-referential loop: Trump validates Trump. The earlier post ("MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!") becomes evidence against cheaters, and the retruth with comment amplifies that evidence — an echo chamber of one, inviting followers to join.

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## Level 4: Clinical Indicators

### Narcissistic Dynamics

**State**: Grandiose-triumphalist (not vulnerable)

Context is notable: Trump is simultaneously posting about Letitia James's civil fraud case (9/18 post about financial statements) and the federal gag order request (Jack Smith). Despite acute legal pressure, this post adopts a *winning* posture — consistent with narcissistic oscillation patterns where grandiose expression defends against underlying vulnerability from legal threat.

**Trigger**: Supply-seeking / maintenance. The 9/18 Long Island car parade likely provided positive crowd energy that feeds into this triumphalist mode. No acute narcissistic injury trigger visible in this specific post.

**Narcissistic supply mechanism**: Indirect — Trump constructs suffering in enemies as evidence of his power. Rather than soliciting direct praise, he positions himself as so threatening that adversaries' distress validates him. Followers participate by imagining those enemies.

### Defense Mechanisms

| Mechanism | Level | Evidence |
|-----------|-------|---------|
| Splitting | Immature | MAGA vs. "Election Cheaters" — binary, no gray |
| Projection | Immature | Electoral wrongdoing attributed wholesale to opponents |
| Denial | Pathological | Election fraud frame embeds denial of 2020 outcome as unexamined premise |

### Malignant Narcissism Component Assessment

- **Narcissistic features**: 0.65 — grandiosity, contempt, entitlement implied
- **Antisocial features**: 0.30 — disregard for court findings; minimal in this post specifically
- **Paranoid features**: 0.50 — "cheaters" framing implies conspiratorial collective
- **Ego-syntonic sadism**: 0.25 — mild pleasure in enemy distress ("hate to see this") but not the dominant register

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## Rhetorical & Propaganda Analysis

**Core structure**: Six content words performing three rhetorical moves simultaneously:
1. **Enemy identification**: "Election Cheaters" (capitalized, proper-noun collective)
2. **Threat attribution**: "hate to see this" (enemies are suffering; Trump is winning)
3. **Tribal affirmation**: "MAGA!" (closing rally cry, identity reinforcement)

**Propaganda techniques**:
- *Enemy construction without evidence*: "Election Cheaters" requires no proof; the label functions as presupposed fact
- *Grievance maintenance*: Keeps the fraud narrative active between major legal/political events
- *Epistemic closure*: Any challenge to the cheaters frame is implicitly cast as cheater behavior

**Ambiguity as feature**: "hate to see this" — what is "this"? The referent is deliberately vague, allowing followers to project their own preferred Trump victory onto the antecedent. The retruth structure means "this" is the MAGA declaration itself, but the emotional logic permits any positive Trump development.

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## Gaslighting & Reality Distortion

The post embeds the contested claim of significant election fraud as unexamined background premise. More specifically:
- It constructs a category ("Election Cheaters") as though membership in that category were established fact
- The framing preemptively discredits skeptics — questioning the premise aligns one with the "haters"
- This is a soft gaslighting move: not a direct denial of documented reality, but the quiet naturalization of a disputed claim

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## Cognitive Status

**Complexity score: 0.20** | **Baseline deviation: None**

The post is too brief (six content words) for meaningful complexity assessment. No language production anomalies are detectable. Extreme brevity with punchy emotional charge is well within Trump's established baseline for retruth-comment posts. No markers of word-finding difficulty, paraphasia, or tangentiality.

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## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Election cheaters exist and are threatened by Trump/MAGA" | **Mostly False** | Over 60 post-2020 election court cases, DOJ/DHS/CISA reviews, and state-level audits found no evidence of fraud at scale sufficient to alter outcomes. Some isolated incidents of individual voter fraud were prosecuted, but these were bipartisan in distribution and trivial in number. |

Overall Veracity: 20%

## Danger Assessment

**Level: Elevated (ambient, not acute)**

No direct incitement, dehumanizing language, or violent imagery present. However:
- Continuous "Election Cheaters" enemy-labeling sustains a named-adversary frame across multiple posts
- This cumulative grievance ecosystem has historically (January 6, 2021) preceded mobilization events
- The framing implies that "cheaters" remain active threats requiring ongoing opposition — a standing grievance with no resolution pathway

Danger is ambient and cumulative, not post-specific.

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## Order/Chaos Dynamics

**Position**: Order attacker (corrupt illegitimate order) + Order restorer (MAGA as return to proper order)

The post enacts a dual positioning: the *existing electoral order* is corrupt (cheaters control it), while *MAGA order* represents legitimate restoration. Trump is simultaneously chaos agent (disrupting the corrupt establishment) and order restorer (bringing back "real" America). This is the Trickster-as-King move: breaks corrupt rules to enforce authentic ones.

**Archetypal analysis**: Primarily **Warrior** (enemies everywhere, constant struggle, opponents suffer at his presence) with secondary **Hero/Savior** (MAGA as return journey). The Trickster is latent — implied in the election fraud narrative's rejection of legitimate process — but not foregrounded in this post's register.

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## Longitudinal Context

This post is the fifth in a cluster (9/18–9/19) cycling through election fraud grievance, legal self-defense (James financial fraud case), crowd validation (Long Island car parade), and international legitimacy-seeking (Viktor Orbán endorsement). The pattern is consistent with Trump's behavioral baseline under acute legal pressure: oscillation between vulnerable posts (defending himself from specific legal charges) and grandiose posts (asserting transcendent power over diffuse enemies). This post occupies the grandiose node in that oscillation.

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 65%)

### Indicators

- 11:33 AM EDT — business hours, slight aide indicator
- Terse, emotionally-charged phrasing is authentic Trump register
- Capitalized 'Election Cheaters' matches Trump's noun-labeling pattern
- Colloquial 'hate to see this' is idiomatic Trump-speak
- MAGA exclamation is a signature Trump closer

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Ongoing election fraud grievance narrative; positive crowd reception from 9/18 Long Island car parade)

Sentiment: +0.30

**Mildly Hypomanic**
- Triumphalist affect despite acute legal pressure (multiple simultaneous cases)
- Grandiose framing coexisting with documented vulnerability in adjacent posts — rapid oscillation
- Punchy, compressed posting style with exclamatory close

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 65%
- Antisocial: 30%
- Paranoid: 50%
- Sadism: 25%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- projection (immature)
- splitting (immature)
- denial (pathological)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 20%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Tribal identity reinforcement ('MAGA!')
- Shared-enemy framing to bond audience
- Victory-signaling ('hate to see this') positions followers as co-winners

## Danger Assessment

**ELEVATED**

### Indicators

- 'Election Cheaters' label sustains a named-enemy frame that, in prior and subsequent posts, has been linked to calls for action against those enemies
- Continuous election fraud narrative maintenance contributes to a grievance ecosystem that has historically preceded mobilization events
- No direct incitement or dehumanizing language present; danger is ambient/cumulative rather than acute

### Gaslighting

- Embeds the contested claim that 2020 involved significant election cheating as unexamined premise
- Frames any challenge to that premise as proof of complicity ('the cheaters hate to see this')

## Fact Checks (1)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._

> Election cheaters exist and are threatened by Trump/MAGA

**MOSTLY FALSE**

Over 60 post-2020 election court cases, DOJ/DHS/CISA reviews, and state-level audits found no evidence of fraud at scale sufficient to alter outcomes. Some isolated incidents of individual voter fraud were prosecuted, but these were bipartisan in distribution and trivial in number.

Sources: CISA 2020 election security statement; Federal court dismissals citing lack of evidence; State audit results (Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin)

Overall Veracity: 20%

## Tags

- election_fraud_narrative (90%)
- MAGA_identity_reinforcement (80%)
- enemy_construction (75%)
- maintenance_post (70%)
- triumphalism (60%)

## That day

_From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._

**A Managed Communications Day Punctuated by Biden's UN Appearance and a Strategic Abortion Repositioning**

Trump spent most of the day in a stable, confident mode, with his team flooding Truth Social with over a dozen curated article links covering everything from border policy to golf. The main flare-up came when Biden took the stage at the UN General Assembly — Trump fired off two personal attacks calling the speech a "surrender" and falsely claiming nobody attended. The day's most significant move was a carefully constructed three-part thread on abortion, where Trump simultaneously used graphic anti-Democrat rhetoric and positioned himself as a pragmatic moderate with exceptions for rape, incest, and the life of the mother. Overall, a strategically managed day with more calculation than chaos.

Full digest for 2023-09-19: https://trump.fm/date/2023-09-19/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, September 19). RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111092538445142372
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/1..." Truth Social, 19 Sep. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111092538445142372. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "RT: https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/1...," Truth Social, September 19, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111092538445142372.

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